Clovis I became leader of the Franks by conquering all those who were not subject to him when he succeeded his father, Childeric I, as King of the Salian Franks.

Ashok Salian was born in 1954.

the first documented king is Clodion le chevelu (Chlodio the long-haired king), king odf the Salian Franks from 428 to 448.

Clovis did not have an empire. He was the king of the Kingdom of the Franks. For a long time he refused to convert to Catholicism but then he relented. It is speculated that he did this because many of the peoples he conquered in Gaul and the Gallo-Roman aristocracy were Catholic. He also codified Salian law with the help of Gallo Romans to reflect the Salian legal tradition (he was a Salian Frank), and Christianity and to incorporate aspects of Roman civil law. This created a uniform legal system for his kingdom which integrated its main traditions and the new religion.

The first Germanic peoples to cross into Roman territories did so to carry out raids and loot. They then returned to their homelands. The First Germanic peoples to settle in parts of the Roman Empire were the Salian Franks and the Visigoths.

The Salian Franks moved across the mouth of the River Rhine into Holland south of that river and northern Belgium in the late 3rd century. They did so because they were pushed southwards by other Germanic peoples, probably the Saxons. The Romans allowed them to settle in this area, which they called Toxandria, and gave them protection. The Salian Franks became allies of the Romans, and fought alongside their troops and supplied solders for the Roman army.

The Visigoths asked the Romans to allow them to settle in the lower Danube area of the Roman Empire to escape the advance of the Huns into eastern Europe. The emperor Valens granted this in 376.